Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Compile files only once: some planning

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Paul Brook

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Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Compile files only once: some planning

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Wed, 24 Mar 2010 22:47:53 +0000

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> Actually, Anthony suggested at some point to just use 64 bits for
> TARGET_PHYS_ADDR_BITS and remove the need for hw32/64.
>
> I think that people emulationg 32bits on 32bits would suffer, but have
> no clue how much. Anthony, what was the idea?
Sacrificing runtime performance to avoid rebuilding a few files is not
acceptable. I consider the fact that TARGET_PHYS_ADDR_BITS is always 64 on 64-
bit hosts is a bug. It's just hard to fix, and probably even less of a
performance hit, so I haven't bothered yet.
Paul